Calgary Central Library: combining intimacy and civic statement
The Calgary central library was on first impression the finest public building I have been in for years.
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Institutions
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
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Memory institutions redux: pluralizing memories and a stay against forgetting
We are now used to memory institutions as a way of collectively referring to libraries, archives and museums.
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University Futures are shaping Library Futures
Libraries are not ends in themselves, but serve the interests of the organizations of which they are a part. As university emphasis varies around research, education and career poles, we can expect to see libraries evolve to support those emphases more strongly.
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Three challenges: Engaging, rightscaling and innovating
A framework of engagement, innovation and rightscaling is used to talk about some of the ways in which the library is changing. This is based on a model developed by John Hagel and John Seely Brown.
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Defining the library ... reflexively
Library definitions often emphasize access to or management of information. However, the library has a much stronger generative role in the cycle of knowledge creation.
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The enterprising librarian ...
The entrepreneur
I participated in an interesting event at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC a while
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Collections are library assets
Business school writing
I quite like using the word ‘assets’ with reference to library collections. We tend to think of
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Preserving musical heritage ...
One of the casualties of the London riots last week was a Sony distribution
warehouse.
> The building, owned by Sony
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Gamification: services and libraries
I have been interested to see more notes in my tweetstream about peoples’
exercise or diet regimes. They are typically
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Some quotes: sizing the academic library ...
A couple of years ago Ross Housewright of Ithaka S+R published an article about
the future of academic libraries.
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Sourcing and scaling: the University of California
I was interested to see Heather Christenson describe The Hathi Trust as a
collaboratively sourced web scale research library in
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Advocacy: public library as amenity and necessity
Downward pressure on the cost of public services creates issues for public
libraries. A growth in advocacy is a natural
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